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Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your best contribution to those around you
and to future generations
will be in the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
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